River gauges, sirens and clear alerts can together help emergency managers anticipate flash floods and communicate life-saving information.

A small Texas town that recorded no deaths in last weekend’s flood disaster had recently upgraded its emergency alert system — the kind of setup state, county and federal officials

Angel PAWS drove 270 miles to the Salvation Army in Kerrville. The therapy dogs quickly became a source of comfort for both disaster survivors and relief workers.

Young campers and a dad saving his family were among the dozens killed in the historic flash floods that tore through central Texas over the holiday weekend.

The devastating floods that struck central Texas over the Fourth of July weekend have become one of the deadliest flood events in the U.S. in the past century, Newsweek previously reported. By Sunday evening, authorities had confirmed at least 82 fatalities.

The record of frequent, often deadly floods in Central Texas goes back more than 200 years to July 1819, when floodwaters spilled into the major plazas of San Antonio. That city on the edge of the Hill Country was hit by major floods again in 1913, 1921, 1998 and 2025, to cite a few examples.

The search for missing bodies is ongoing along Texas’ Guadalupe River after catastrophic and deadly flooding killed more than 100 people following a torrential downpour early Friday morning.

After the devastating floods in the Texas Hill Country on Friday, some of those who survived the storm are now picking up the pieces after losing property and even homes.

While local leaders in parts of the Hill Country are facing tough questions about the lack of a flood warning system, the fire chief in the town of Comfort in Kendall County is crediting his with saving lives.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott stopped his press conference to comfort victims of flooding in Kerr County, Texas yesterday.